Illustration of the Grand International rifle match at Creedmoor, Long Island, 1876. A. B. Frost/Harper’s Weekly/Library of Congress

Top Guns

How the NRA became one of the most powerful institutions in America
Patrick Blanchfield
Harry Dodge, Faulty Premise, 2013, gaffer tape, gouache on bristol board, 33 1⁄2 × 28". Courtesy the artist

Brain Candy

Harry Dodge’s giddy exploration of consciousness
Megan Milks
Baccio Bandinelli, Hercules and Cacus (detail), 1525–34. Ignacio Ferre Pérez/Flickr

Sex and the Sacristy

Robert Glück’s New Narrative novel of modern love and medieval devotion
Alexander Chee

Fierce Detachments

Katie Roiphe’s unresolved musings on women and power
Molly Fischer
"Robinson's outrage is refreshingly uncynical. But is moral outrage a solid foundation to build a movement on?"

Socialism Butterfly

Nathan Robinson’s is a socialism of feeling
Micah Uetricht
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Powell’s Books. Photo: Wikicommons / Cacophony
Powell’s Books rehires 100 employees; Ron Charles recommends new books for “life under lockdown”
culture
Stories of the Sahara
Chelsea Leu
culture
Shannon Taggart, Gretchen Clark laughs as her deceased brother Chapman interrupts a reading to tell her a joke, Lily Dale, New York, 2001.
Shannon Taggart’s clear-eyed pictures of Spiritualist communities
Alex Jovanovich
culture
Merce Cunningham and John Cage. Photo: James Klosty, © James Klosty
Dancing on His Own
J. Howard Rosier
politics
Chelsea Manning, New York, January 2018. Manolo Luna/Wikicommons
A new book asks who counts as a truth-teller and why
Natasha Lennard
fiction
Caravaggio, Sette opere di Misericordia (The Seven Works of Mercy) (detail), ca. 1607, oil on canvas, 8' 4" × 12' 6". Wikicommons
In Amina Cain’s first novel, plot comes second to painterly detail
Sarah Resnick
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